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"That day, at the Ponceau Fountain, there were wild men and women, who fought and assumed many aspects, as they sang little motets and bergerettes."

5-6); some typically English accidental cancelling signs added to the first motet (p.

The Forty Part Motet is a re-working of Thomas Tallis's 16th-century composition Spem in Alium, a forty-part choral composition.

The second motet, "O Magnum Mysterium" by Spanish composer Tomas Luis di Victoria, is a more complicated piece in both its structure and how imitation is used.

Adiemus originally had my invented language but to make it a "motet" I have adapted sacred text for the music.

The motet is the genre par excellence in the first part of the manuscript, while the presence of the Office for the Death is notable in the second, in which the verses alternated with simple polyphony and often with an instrumental passage performed by the organ or minstrels.

She composed over 200 works of different types, including a number of motets for solo voice and continuo, some also with two violins.

Based on Thomas Tallis's Spem in Alium, The Forty Part Motet was produced in 2001 and is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

The three major musical forms of this golden age outside of plainchant and hymns are the grand and petit motet and the lemons de tenebres.

In the final chapter, Dillon returns to the polytextual motet applying to a number of pieces in the first fascicle of the Montpellier Codex insights derived from the study of devotional books.